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								<h2 class="chapter">7 strings</h2>
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								<p><a name="index-strings-106"></a><a name="index-listings-strings-107"></a><a name="index-printing-strings-108"></a><a name="index-strings_002c-printing-109"></a>
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								<!-- man title strings print the strings of printable characters in files. -->
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								<pre class="smallexample">     <!-- man begin SYNOPSIS strings -->
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								     strings [<span class="option">-afov</span>] [<span class="option">-</span><var>min-len</var>]
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								             [<span class="option">-n</span> <var>min-len</var>] [<span class="option">--bytes=</span><var>min-len</var>]
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								             [<span class="option">-t</span> <var>radix</var>] [<span class="option">--radix=</span><var>radix</var>]
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								             [<span class="option">-e</span> <var>encoding</var>] [<span class="option">--encoding=</span><var>encoding</var>]
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								             [<span class="option">-</span>] [<span class="option">--all</span>] [<span class="option">--print-file-name</span>]
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								             [<span class="option">-T</span> <var>bfdname</var>] [<span class="option">--target=</span><var>bfdname</var>]
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								             [<span class="option">--help</span>] [<span class="option">--version</span>] <var>file</var>...
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								   <!-- man begin DESCRIPTION strings -->
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								<p>For each <var>file</var> given, <span class="sc">gnu</span> <span class="command">strings</span> prints the printable
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								character sequences that are at least 4 characters long (or the number
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								given with the options below) and are followed by an unprintable
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								character.  By default, it only prints the strings from the initialized
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								and loaded sections of object files; for other types of files, it prints
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								the strings from the whole file.
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								   <p><span class="command">strings</span> is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text
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								files.
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								<!-- man begin OPTIONS strings -->
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								<dt><span class="env">-a</span><dt><span class="env">--all</span><dt><span class="env">-</span><dd>Do not scan only the initialized and loaded sections of object files;
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								scan the whole files.
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								     <br><dt><span class="env">-f</span><dt><span class="env">--print-file-name</span><dd>Print the name of the file before each string.
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								     <br><dt><span class="env">--help</span><dd>Print a summary of the program usage on the standard output and exit.
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								     <br><dt><span class="env">-</span><var>min-len</var><dt><span class="env">-n </span><var>min-len</var><dt><span class="env">--bytes=</span><var>min-len</var><dd>Print sequences of characters that are at least <var>min-len</var> characters
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								long, instead of the default 4.
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								     <br><dt><span class="env">-o</span><dd>Like <span class="samp">-t o</span>.  Some other versions of <span class="command">strings</span> have <span class="option">-o</span>
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								act like <span class="samp">-t d</span> instead.  Since we can not be compatible with both
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								ways, we simply chose one.
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								     <br><dt><span class="env">-t </span><var>radix</var><dt><span class="env">--radix=</span><var>radix</var><dd>Print the offset within the file before each string.  The single
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								character argument specifies the radix of the offset—<span class="samp">o</span> for
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								octal, <span class="samp">x</span> for hexadecimal, or <span class="samp">d</span> for decimal.
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								     <br><dt><span class="env">-e </span><var>encoding</var><dt><span class="env">--encoding=</span><var>encoding</var><dd>Select the character encoding of the strings that are to be found. 
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								Possible values for <var>encoding</var> are: <span class="samp">s</span> = single-7-bit-byte
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								characters (ASCII, ISO 8859, etc., default), <span class="samp">S</span> =
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								single-8-bit-byte characters, <span class="samp">b</span> = 16-bit bigendian, <span class="samp">l</span> =
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								16-bit littleendian, <span class="samp">B</span> = 32-bit bigendian, <span class="samp">L</span> = 32-bit
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								littleendian.  Useful for finding wide character strings. (<span class="samp">l</span>
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								and <span class="samp">b</span> apply to, for example, Unicode UTF-16/UCS-2 encodings).
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								     <br><dt><span class="env">-T </span><var>bfdname</var><dt><span class="env">--target=</span><var>bfdname</var><dd><a name="index-object-code-format-110"></a>Specify an object code format other than your system's default format. 
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								     <br><dt><span class="env">-v</span><dt><span class="env">--version</span><dd>Print the program version number on the standard output and exit. 
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